Pavesi, Angelo

Since Hoffmann was in Heideiberg for only one semester before graduating and taking a position in private industry, we can place this testimony in the summer of 1856. Besides Kekule and Hoffmann, the circle referred to included Erlenmeyer, Baeyer, Lothar Meyer, Ludwig Carius, the Swiss Hans Landolt, the Austrians Adolf Lieben and Leopold von Pebal, the German-Russian Friedrich Beilstein, the Russian Leon Shish-kov, the American Frank Storer, and the Italians Angelo Pavesi and Ag-ostino Frapolli (Frapolli, Pebal, and Erlenmeyer were all three to five years older than Kekule Lieben, Beilstein, and Baeyer, several years younger). 

As Mendeleev indicated, no agreement was reached at the meeting. However, Cannizzaro had taken the precaution of bringing along some reprints of a paper that he had published two years earlier. As the delegates left the conference, a friend of Cannizzaro s, Angelo Pavesi, distributed the pamphlets. Julius Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) later recorded the impression the paper made on him as he travelled home The scales fell from my eyes, doubts vanished and were replaced by a feeling of the most peaceful assurance . 

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